LIVERIA International Realty, ranked in the Global Elite Awards Top 100 for 2026 and the reigning winner as the Leading International Luxury Property Advisory Firm for UHNWI, has quietly become the go-to agency for off-market luxury real estate across the Indian Ocean. The firm now sits at the centre of a private network of vendors, family offices, and private-banking counterparties that spans the Seychelles, Mauritius, the Gulf, and the DACH region, and its off-market mandates in the Indian Ocean have grown into one of the most concentrated ultra-prime portfolios in the region today.
The Founder Behind LIVERIA International Realty
LIVERIA International Realty is led by Valeria Ivic, a Swiss founder who lives between the United Arab Emirates and Mauritius and works directly with each mandate the firm accepts. The founder’s Swiss origin is not incidental to the client model. She speaks German natively, moves comfortably between Zurich, Geneva, Munich, Vienna, Frankfurt, and Dubai in the same working week, and reads the requirements of the German-speaking ultra-high-net-worth client with the fluency that only a first-language advisor can bring. That linguistic and cultural fluency, combined with a permanent operating base in the Gulf and the Indian Ocean, is one of the reasons LIVERIA International Realty is the natural counterparty for cross-border UHNWI transactions between the DACH region, the Middle East, and the Indian Ocean markets.
The founder-led model matters. Every mandate accepted by LIVERIA International Realty passes through the founder herself, either at the sourcing stage, at the structuring stage, or at both. That single point of continuity is what allows the firm to deliver at the standard the ultra-prime category demands and to maintain the confidentiality discipline that its client base considers non-negotiable.
The Seychelles Off-Market Portfolio
Over the course of 2026, LIVERIA International Realty has secured direct mandates from the vendors on a series of extraordinary off-market plots in the Seychelles. These are not portal listings, and they are not shared with other agencies. They are private mandates, held directly with the owners, and they include plots with direct beach access on some of the most sought-after coastlines in the archipelago. The plots are sized and positioned for hospitality development, and they are among the very few large-scale opportunities of this kind ever brought to market in the Indian Ocean at this level of privacy.
The Seychelles off-market portfolio has been built through direct owner introductions rather than syndicated deal flow. Each site has been walked personally by the LIVERIA International Realty team, and each is presented to prospective clients with a full context on title, access, permitting environment, and hospitality feasibility. Because the mandates are held directly with the sellers, LIVERIA International Realty is able to control the disclosure of each site with a level of discretion that a co-agent or syndicated model could never match. The full inventory is available only on request, and only after the firm has satisfied itself that the enquiring party is a genuine buyer capable of closing at the level required.
For hospitality developers, family offices, and UHNWI investors looking to enter the Indian Ocean at the ultra-prime end, this Seychelles off-market portfolio is one of the most concentrated single-agency opportunities available in the region today. LIVERIA International Realty sees it as the anchor of the firm’s Indian Ocean thesis.
Mauritius on the Same Off-Market Model
In Mauritius, LIVERIA International Realty follows exactly the same operating pattern. The firm holds an extensive off-market portfolio of luxury villas, private estates, beachfront residences, and development-ready plots that are not published on any portal, are not listed on the firm’s own website, and are shared only with pre-qualified buyers on request. Much of this Mauritius portfolio has never been publicly marketed at any point in its ownership history. It circulates only inside the private network the firm has built over years of working directly with high-net-worth vendors on the island, and it is one of the largest concentrated off-market inventories held by any single agency in Mauritius today.
The choice to keep the Mauritius portfolio unpublished is deliberate. Sellers at this level of the market rarely want their properties broadcast, and buyers at this level rarely want to compete with a portal audience. LIVERIA International Realty is one of the very few firms in Mauritius that can operate at this level without ever putting a property into the public window, and the Mauritius off-market portfolio is available, as with the Seychelles inventory, only on request.
A Client Base in the Middle East and the DACH Region
The majority of LIVERIA International Realty clients originate from two specific pools. The first is the Middle East, and in particular the United Arab Emirates, where the firm’s permanent Gulf presence and the founder’s local network have produced a steady base of private clients, family offices, and hospitality investors interested in the Indian Ocean as a wealth-preservation and lifestyle geography. The second is the DACH region, meaning Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, where the founder’s native German gives the firm a level of communication and cultural fit that the wider international brokerage category simply cannot replicate for German-speaking UHNWI clients.
The combination is unusual in luxury real estate. Very few international firms are able to serve the Middle Eastern and DACH client at the same standard, from a single leadership, in the same language the client thinks in. LIVERIA International Realty is one of the few, and the majority of its Seychelles and Mauritius mandates are placed with clients from these two pools.
An Off-Market Model, by Design
LIVERIA International Realty is structurally an off-market firm. The portal listings and the shop-window inventory that characterise the wider luxury brokerage category are, by design, not part of how the firm works. Off-market is not a marketing badge here. It is an operating model.
The reasons are practical. Sellers at the ultra-prime end of the Indian Ocean market prefer privacy for reasons of security, corporate structure, family arrangement, and negotiation leverage. Buyers at the same level prefer privacy because their acquisition patterns are themselves information they do not wish to publish. And the transactions themselves are best served by a small, controlled counterparty pool that can move quickly on structure, tax, and closing without the interference of an open bidding process. LIVERIA International Realty’s off-market model is calibrated to all three, and the firm’s client roster reflects that calibration.
In practice, this means every enquiry is handled personally, every property is presented only after a genuine buyer profile has been established, and every mandate is treated as a long-term relationship rather than a one-off transaction. It is unhurried work, done in private, and it is the reason LIVERIA International Realty has become the go-to agency for the Indian Ocean at the top of the market.
Why the Indian Ocean, and Why Now
The Indian Ocean has moved, over the last three years, from a secondary geography for international UHNWI capital to a primary one. The Seychelles offer a small number of exceptional coastlines, a stable regulatory framework, and a hospitality environment that the international traveller has increasingly identified as a first-tier long-haul destination. Mauritius offers a residence structure, a tax framework, a bilingual professional community, and a lifestyle proposition that has drawn a growing share of European and Middle Eastern UHNWI clients to establish there. Together, the two islands now form one of the more strategically important sub-regions of the international luxury real estate map.
LIVERIA International Realty has been positioned in both markets before this shift, and its direct-mandate portfolios in Seychelles and Mauritius put the firm in an unusually strong position to serve the wave of UHNWI demand now arriving in the Indian Ocean. Clients approaching the region today, whether from Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Doha, Zurich, Geneva, Munich, Vienna, or Frankfurt, find in LIVERIA International Realty the single counterparty capable of taking them from the first conversation through to a private closing without leaving the firm.
How to Enquire
The full Seychelles and Mauritius off-market portfolios are shared only on request, and only with pre-qualified buyers. Clients interested in exploring the Indian Ocean opportunity through LIVERIA International Realty are invited to reach out through the firm directly. The firm will respond personally and, where appropriate, arrange a confidential briefing on the current mandates and the wider Indian Ocean pipeline the team is working on.
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